From: Josh Spiegel [mailto:josh.spiegel at oracle.com]
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 3:45 PM
To: David Lee
Cc: xquery-discuss
Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] XQuery quirk of the day
If you are looking for concise...
if ("") then "yep" else "nope" ==> nope
if (()) then "yep" else "nope" ==> nope
if ("foo") then "yep" else "nope" ==> yep
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Thanks, I just stumbled on this while playing with the not() suggestion.
I was thinking "if fn:not() works why not no not just if ... " ahh english vs code :
Voila ! thanks all . My code is now much cleaner (but perhaps less readable) ... oh well ;)
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David A. Lee
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